I anticipate that after the tone of this week’s local election and with a looming financial crisis, a snap General Election is on the cards this Autumn and if this happens, Southwark Labour Party needs to get its act together!
Let me explain… Three hours before the polling stations closed, a Labour rep not known to us came to our door. Her visit was to check if we had already or were still going to cast our votes and by implication, that we would be casting our ballot for the Labour candidates. This is not surprising, for as a family, the Labour Party records has us down as left-leaning, European loving and pro-social assimilation.
Explaining why our visitor seemed surprised to learn that we were wavering in our supporting for the local Labour candidates because of their distribution of what we considered disappointing material. We cannot understand why the political party we support could post this slur through our door, twice! Especially as our door has a very prominent sign – No Junk Mail…
It was clear that the agent was not sure how to react to my feelings that the circulation of this pamphlet anonymously incurred the stigma of cowardice…
There was a long silence, perhaps because people will rarely be so full and frank, because of a natural desire to belong or to fit in, to please others and confirm that we are go-along-guys, or perhaps due to feeling of needing to be loyal and tow the party line…
My sense of natural justice was offended by the flouting of the law of good manners!!!
“See how completely men and women deceive themselves! Every one regards those sins, which he does not himself commit as heinous, and those he does commit as trivial” according to Francesco Guicciardini (b. 1483–d. 1540) a Florentine patrician and papal administrator who penned many works on the history and the government of his native city and documented the era of the Italian Wars in his monumental Storia d'Italia.
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